Well, at least he can write... sort-of.

The U.S. Senate campaign in Virginia is getting dirty, folks. CNSNews reports:

The campaign of Republican Sen. George Allen on Thursday released excerpts from some of the war novels Webb wrote between 1978 and 2002. The books include some graphic sexual passages, as well as frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as "monkey-faced."

Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel "Lost Soldiers," in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy's penis in his mouth.

??? - What could possibly be the context of that passage? ???

"It's not a sexual act," Webb told Plotkin regarding the "Lost Soldiers" excerpt. "I actually saw this happen in a slum in Bangkok when I was there as a journalist."

"The duty of a writer is to illuminate his surroundings," he added.

Coincidentally, a Cambodian woman in Las Vegas is facing sexual assault charges for performing a similar act on her young son, according to an Oct. 14 report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The article quotes an office manager for the Cambodian Association of America, who described the act as a sign of respect or love.

OK, well then that totally makes sense. We westerners are just prudes, that's all.

Nothing says "I love you" like sucking your son's penis. Thanks, Jim for enlightening me.

I'll take "Things I really wish I'd never known" for $1000, Alex.